Other forms: gluttons
A glutton is somebody who eats far too much. A greedy glutton, a glutton for punishment, gluttons at the table.
Gluttony was one of the seven deadly sins, which is where the word's moral weight comes from. A glutton for punishment is somebody who keeps taking on hard or unpleasant work, and that phrase is now much commoner than the literal sense.
1noungluttonSomebody who eats far too much.
“Don't be a glutton; leave some cake for everyone else.”
glutton is a person.
Latin glutto comes from gluttire, to swallow. The wolverine was also called a glutton for its appetite.
German
Vielfraß
Latin
glutto — glutton
Old French
gloton
Middle English
glotoun
English, today
glutton
From Middle English glotoun, from Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin glutto (“glutton”). The use for the wolverine is a German Vielfraß, itself a folk etymology for Old Norse - *fjallfress literally “mountain cat”. The popular belief that the wolverine is particularly voracious only developed because of this name. See the German for more.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA